We were further sickened to learn of another Microsoft connection traced back to last December. There is now concrete proof that underground cult KDE on Cygwin is engaging a truly unholypursuit in a rather foolish attempt at cloning.

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...and I am really angry about the way dot.kde.org has rewritten my submission to their story queue. "couldn't take it no more", "gracefully stumbled away", "ugly dragon" and "crocodile tears" - none of these were written by me.

I originally only submitted a news item to dot.kde.org to report that a) the Mozilla folks are about to remove the Qt branch from CVS, b) they have good reasons for that since the Qt branch doesn't work and c) if we don't want to loose Qt in Mozilla, developers should put some effort into this and a project leader is needed.

That news item was submitted to the story queue quite some time before the decision to drop Qt was finally done, so it's not only sad that Navindra made such a childish rant out of it, but also that he did it this late.

Relax, nobody thinks you were crying or that you said those things. It's all inventive lies, in true tabloid fashion.

Your Mozilla Qt submission -- thanks a lot, but it probably wasn't going to be posted anyway. Trust me when I tell you that posting this to dot.kde.org effectively wouldn't have made a difference to the Mozilla situation. I just salvaged a few iffy Qt stories and posted them together. I thought I would use yours too instead of throwing it away.

The reason your name is there at all is to credit you for the submission, not to ridicule you!

There is a branch that has been created which contains the attempt to get mozilla going on Qt. (Qt support has just been removed from the main tree, but if this gets going properly it could be reincluded) It runs, but is much slower than the gtk version and has bugs. So if anyone is keen join in and help get it going ... check out the netscape.public.mozilla.qt newsgroup if you want to find out more or get involved...http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.qt